The Determinants Of Job Satisfaction Of Ambo Polytechnic College Employees

Abstract

Job satisfaction has always concern of an employee and employer. Therefore, investigating its determinants is of value for both. Quantitative survey was employed to identify determinants of job satisfaction in this study which was used to address an important issue among ambo polytechnic college. Questionnaires were administered and collected fromlist of 90 focal persons in Ambo polytechnic college. A total of 90 responses were received. Data has been analyzed using SPSS. Results demonstrated that there is a positive impact of independent variables() on the dependent variable among the subject population. The result of the study shows that there a significant relationship between independent variables, salary & benefit, promotion, work environment and relation among supervisors and job satisfaction of employees of Ambo polytechnic College. All the above factors highly influence job satisfaction of employees. Employees are not satisfied on salary and other benefits in addition to work environment. Generally this study shows that most of the employees are not satisfied with their job. Based on this it is recommended that, the Ambo polytechnic College should work more on the above factors especially in salary and benefit and work environment by considering the other competitive salary scale. This helps increase to job satisfaction and to achieve its strategies and goals through productive work force .It also helps to minimize employee’s turnover. The findings can be generalized to other settings keeping all other things constant and working staff is a highly honorable career and always boons to their societies where they are working. However, the extant literature shows that job satisfaction is under un area in terms of organizational and personal determinants particularly in Ambo polytechnic college. So, the recent survey can contribute to addressing that gap.